November 22, 2004
The ongoing investigation of brokerage commissions and alleged bid rigging that started in New York is being felt everywhere, nowhere more so than neighboring Connecticut. Despite an agenda that ranged from identity theft to best practices in agency management, the …
November 22, 2004
While the brokerage investigations took center stage at the mid-year meeting of the Independent Insurance Agents of Connecticut (IIAC), agents did get around to other subjects including how their own bank is doing and what they should be doing about …
November 8, 2004
Every business insurance prospect yearns to be treated as an individual. No serious executive, regardless of their firm’s size, wants their company’s insurance problems to be solved by some prewritten, fill-in-the-blank solution. This is understandable. Yet, on the flip side, …
November 8, 2004
Community banks have come a long way since Jimmy Stewart’s character struggled to keep the Bailey Building and Loan alive to support the residents in Bedford Falls in Frank Capra’s 1946 classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Insuring these institutions has …
October 25, 2004
Any company with a Web site is a candidate for professional (or third party) Internet liability insurance. In most circumstances, they do not purchase it. This is often because the company expects their current insurance coverage to provide the necessary …
October 25, 2004
The Oklahoma attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit against an Arizona telemarketing company after the company allegedly offered Oklahoma consumers a bogus identity theft protection service, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said. The lawsuit, filed in Oklahoma County District Court, accuses …
October 19, 2004
New Jersey’s Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor has obtained a State Grand Jury indictment charging an Essex County woman and her mother with allegedly selling …
October 15, 2004
OneBeacon Insurance, a wholly owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd, announced that Matt Mueller has joined the company to lead its high-tech commercial insurance business. Mueller comes to OneBeacon from Chubb, where he led that firm’s technology business …
September 30, 2004
Los Angeles-based GNW Insurance Services Inc. and Evergreen Insurance Services Inc. of Tarzana, Calif. two independently owned insurance brokerage firms, have announced completion of phase one of their merger. The newly combined organization will be housed under one state-of-the-art insurance …
September 29, 2004
The Oklahoma attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit against an Arizona telemarketing company after the company allegedly offered Oklahoma consumers a bogus identity theft protection service, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said. The lawsuit, filed today in Oklahoma County District Court, …